Before I forget : love, hope, help, and acceptance in our fight against Alzheimer's / B. Smith & Dan Gasby with Michael Shnayerson ; foreword by Rudolph E. Tanzi, PHD
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Harmony Books, [2016]Description: xiii, 319 pages ; 22 cmISBN:- 9780553447125
- 0553447122
- 616.8/310092 B 23
Item type | Current library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Adult Book | Phillipsburg Free Public Library | Adult Non-Fiction | Adult Non-Fiction | 616.8310092 SMI | Available | 36748002296848 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"A powerful portrait of Alzheimer's...marked by strong emotions and often bleak honesty."
-- The Washington Post
"The vulnerability, courage, and honesty in Before I Forget are heart-opening. Fear can be paralyzing...yet B. and Dan beautifully demonstrate that there is a different way to approach this stealthy invader. Alzheimer's needs to come out of the shadows, and this book is an important step."
--Maria Shriver
Restaurateur, magazine publisher, celebrity chef, and nationally known lifestyle maven, B. Smith is struggling at 66 with a tag she never expected to add to that string: Alzheimer's patient. She's not alone. Every 67 seconds someone newly develops it, and millions of lives are affected by its aftershocks.
B. and her husband, Dan, working with Vanity Fair contributing editor Michael Shnayerson, unstintingly share their unfolding story. Crafted in short chapters that interweave their narrative with practical and helpful advice, readers learn about dealing with Alzheimer's day-to-day challenges: the family realities and tensions, ways of coping, coming research that may tip the scale, as well as lessons learned along the way.
At its heart, Before I Forget is a love story: illuminating a love of family, life, and hope.
Includes bibliographical references and index
"Working with Vanity Fair contributing editor Michael Shnayerson, B. and her husband, Dan, share B.'s unfolding story on dealing with early-onset Alzheimer's. Crafted in short chapters that interweave their narrative with practical and helpful advice, readers learn in small bites about dealing with Alzheimer's disease's day-to-day challenges, the family tensions, and ways of coping, as well as gain tips on diet and exercise from a lifestyle maven using her decades of expertise in a new and unexpected way"-- Provided by publisher
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Foreword (p. ix)
- Part 1 Little Signs of Difference (p. 1)
- Part 2 The New Normal (p. 35)
- Part 3 Putting Aside Pride and Privacy (p. 67)
- Part 4 Queen of the Three Rivers (p. 95)
- Part 5 Brave, Then and Now (p. 127)
- Part 6 Time to Speak Out (p. 149)
- Part 7 Walking in Her Shoes (p. 177)
- Part 8 Stalking an Unstoppable Disease (p. 205)
- Part 9 Alzheimer's and African Americans (p. 243)
- Part 10 The Road Ahead (p. 265)
- Resources (p. 299)
- Acknowledgments (p. 307)
- Index (p. 311)